The factors associated with success of smoking cessation at smoking-cessation clinic.
- Author:
Cheol Hwan KIM
1
;
Hong Gwan SEO
Author Information
1. Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Inje University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
smoking;
smoking cessation;
nicotine
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Adult;
Female;
Humans;
Korea;
Logistic Models;
Male;
Nicotine;
Seoul;
Smoke*;
Smoking Cessation*;
Smoking*;
Tobacco Use Cessation Products;
Tobacco Use Disorder;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine
2001;22(11):1603-1611
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: In spite of harmfulness of smoking, the smoking rate of adult male is high in Korea and that of adolescent and women has risen recently. Most smokers try to stop smoking for themselves without doctor's help or medication, but the success rate is extremely low. Although the number of smoking-cessation clinic has risen year by year, there are few researches about smoking cessation. In this study, we tried to find the factors associated with successful smoking cessation and the effective smoking cessation modalities. METHODS: 114 smokers, who has visited the smoking-cessation clinic of Seoul Paik Hospital from Oct. 1998 to June 2000, were included. After doing a survey with basic questionnaire and smoking cessation counselling, we followed up them. We also checked their smoking behavior 6 months later. RESULTS: The success rate was 32.5%. The demographic characteristics of success group and failure group no significant difference. But the factors such as age, BMI, expiratory CO level at initial visit to hospital, nicotine dependence scale, the duration using nicotine patch and the number of visit to smoking-cessation clinic showed significant difference between the two groups. CONCLUSION: The results of logistic regression showed that BMI and nicotine dependence scale were significantly different.
